Message from the Sculpture Park

We invite all visitors to the park during the period 19th April -18th May 2025 to get their cameras out to capture images of the brief time when trees turn colour and the creative opportunities abound. Whether you glimpse an opportunity to take a photo that portrays the season or want to take a step further and make an installation with natural materials, we encourage your participation in this competition.

The opportunity to engage with nature to make temporary art is available all year around here at the park but autumn provides more diverse natural materials to spark imaginations. Just like famous ephemeral artists Andy Goldsworthy and Richard Schilling, you can gather all sorts of natural materials to assemble your ideas: leaves, pods, twigs, flax string, flower petals, fruit, and pebbles—all of which can make extraordinary installations to photograph on the ground, hanging from trees, or floating on water.

We now encourage a little scavenging here to collect materials and get creative with them. We can’t wait to see what you come up with!
We have great prizes for all categories/age groups! See below the 2024 People’s Choice winning photo.

Please see: https://www.sculpturepark.co.nz/events for more detail and the entry form.